Indexicality

phenomenological approach to photography. To be clear, I am analyzing how Barthes perceives photography as indexical from his phenomenological approach and proving how it serves the indexical sign. First, we must consider how Barthes speaks of indexicality when describing the Camera Lucida’s purpose, which he says is to find the noeme of photography. He eventually concludes that the noeme is the undeniability of “that-has-been”, which refers to the indexical truthfulness of what has physically been

Introduction After the first couple of months, infants become more interactive with their surroundings. They are very curious and have the desire to get in touch with the world. In order to engage in such activity, they begin by utilizing their sense of touch by placing numerous objects in their mouth. In the upcoming months, infants start to use different senses such as hearing and sight to get in touch with their surroundings. Before they are even able to speak, their caregivers speak to them in

black people. However, when someone uses a phrase such as “nada,” the Spanish word for “nothing,” it is almost universally recognized as a Spanish word and associated with a racialized group of people. Since Mock Spanish has a more obvious racial indexicality than use of AAVE, it holds a different function. In general, different forms of incorporation of various linguistic elements into white speech hold different functions due to their varying degrees of racial

Introduction By the time infants reach the later stages of Brown 1, they become more interactive with people. At that point, most infants have said their first word. They are beginning to become more aware of their surroundings. Numerous infants will take it upon themselves into exploring their world by placing numerous objects in their mouth. By utilizing the sense of taste, infants become more connected to their surroundings rather than sight and smell. After a while, children begin to become more

One of the first things that comes into your mind when you hear the word “language” is communication, isn't it? However language is much more than just communication. Language is what makes you different from other human beings. Thanks to it, you can communicate with others, express who you are, your ideas, feelings, thoughts, discomforts, etc. With language you can even change the world, you can hurt a person or you can love a person. Language has many more aspects than what you might think, some

partly to replicate today’s instant forms of communications and news channel. More importantly, the mashing clips together “force a reaction from a powerless “userbase” audience”, “the ever present framing devices” makes the viewer lost in the indexicality and the actual linear time the events happen. In addition to that, it is edited through various secondary sources and stitched together to make the audience constantly aware

Selling Memories There never has been, and there never will be another moment exactly like the one you are living in right now, and as soon as the next begins, the last is gone. Each perceived moment is special and short-lived, making many of them worthy of capturing. What remains are memories and the effects these moments had on your life and this world. Until recent human history, there was only one platform for these memories to persist upon; the human mind. These experiences have always lived

McIntosh (2009) offers an intriguing case study, where the concepts of personhood, hegemony, and fractal recursivity are intertwined and played through the dynamics of Swahili-Giriama bordered ethnoreligious interactions. The Giriama geographical, social, religious, and linguistic subordination to the Swahili Muslims is the framework to negotiate, resist or submit to the hegemonic Swahili Islam. First, through personhood, the Giriama frame their religious actions and relations with the Swahilis.

For years, social action theorists have sought out to understand how society operates. Unlike structuralists for example Marxists, action theorists are a micro level approach where they find the study of the individual and their interactions within society more important to our understanding. Action theorists are more voluntaristic, they believe that individuals possess agency where they have the ability to be free agents in themselves and in shaping society. Max Weber is well known within sociology

The nested regression models in Chapter 6 and the qualitative interviews in Chapter 8 indicated that purely relying on network effect arguments may not be sufficient to explain why people remain continuously committed to the usage of particular SNSs. This finding is contrasted with the conventional wisdom frequently epitomised by media pundits and financial analysts, i.e. that ‘network effects are the holy grail of social networking’. In particular, Wall Street analysts’ obsession with user numbers